Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I love my sleep.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule.
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I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.
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I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
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I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.
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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
